Quotes About Books

When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Islam's all about knowledge, right? Muslims know everything. We seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. We seek knowledge even if it be in China, Yusef, EVEN IN CHINA! And we've reduced our religion to fuckin' academics. The guy who knows Islam best is the one who really hits the books hard, learns his shit. Muslims brag about having no priests but we're getting molested by scholars. Yusef Ali, books are not Allah. Even a book by or from Allah is not Allah.

It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.

Nothing the human can read is more interesting than you. Therefore, when the human picks up a book, magazine, or newspaper, you may best assist him or her by interposing your magnificent Self between the page and humanity.

He says that everything a cook needs to know—everything, mind you—is contained in five books: Escoffier, Larousse, Hering's Dictionary, La Repetoire. I tell him that's only four. "And Câreme," he says. He pauses. "No one wants.

You start by reading books, and you end by loving them

It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other.

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

In that time he had managed to write books that made me consider him a friend more than a hundred years later.

Elämä ilman lukemista on vaarallista, silloin on pakko tyytyä elämiseen ja siinä on omat riskinsä.

Life without anything to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life and that can lead you to take risks.

Wydr??y?em dziurk? w piasku, wsun??em tam oba dzie?a; teraz problem polega? na tym, ?e musia?em poszuka? sobie czego? do czytania. Zycie bez czytania jest niebezpieczne, trzeba zadowoli? si? samym ?yciem, a to niesie ze sob? pewne ryzyko.

mais un auteur c'est avant tout un être humain, présent dans ses livres, qu'il écrive très bien ou très mal en définitive importe peu, l'essentiel est qu'il écrive et qu'il soit, effectivement, présent dans ses livres

Unlike most people I don't fear death, as I get older I rediscover my long-forgotten youth, and once in a while, when the going gets tough, I bury myself comfortably in my work. My books already guarantee me a form of immortality.

De toutes ses forces (qui furent grandes), la littérature s'oppose à la notion d'actualité permanente, de perpétuel présent. Les livres appellent des lecteurs; mais ces lecteurs doivent avoir une existence individuelle et stable : ils ne peuvent être de purs consommateurs, de purs fantômes; ils doivent être aussi, en quelque manière, des sujets.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

Les livres sont indispensables. La littérature est l'oxygène de l'âme.

I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and, sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it—no shortcuts and no anesthesia.

I think I could use a library," she answered finally.

One great thing about church friends: they buy and read your books.

There's always the literature cure. Take a big box of books out to the desert and read until things shift. Bleak House can cure anything." Lewis smacked the steering wheel. "Bleak House is about my favorite fucking book in the world.

Reading is a way to quench your thirst for knowledge.

I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.